Hello Fellow Readers!

Over at Carisa's  1+1+1=1 Blogspot she is hosting Tools for Tots.

What is that you ask?

Well, Carisa has been brainstorming for new homeschool ideas and she created Tools for Tots so that we all can partake and share.

What is it exactly? Tools for Tots it's educational tools that we make ourselves for our children to learn. (geared to lower aged children or even altered for higher aged children).

Your Choice.

There are as Carisa states there are great and wonderful educational tools and toys out there to use these days but, some of us may need to save money, watch our spending or take short cuts so Carisa has come up with a way for us to share tools that we make and share with one another, inexpensively made but great.

If you have created a wonderful learning tool for your children and would like to share please visit Carisa's Tools for Tots Blog.

I am going to share one that I made with our 8yo Son sometime ago since he has currently finished Unit 4 of his Language Arts. 

We found this idea in his Alpha Omega Language Arts Life pac Unit 2 I think it was that particular unit (please correct me if I am wrong).

They were talking about how vowels hold words together like your pbj hold your sandwich together.

So I made a "Word-Wich" for our son.

What I used to make this word wich is as follows please feel free to alter anyway you wish to improve it or make it for your child's learning style.

*I printed this coloring page twice from HERE-abcteach

*I printed both on white cardstock.

*I cut it out and attached it to a piece of cardboard from a cereal box (a stiff cereal box not the thinner kind), cut it out again.

*Took a sentence strip and cut a good size square out of it eye balling it. (next time I would use the same color for each slice but, we were trying to symbolize something like pbj).

*Glued those to the center and then put packaging tape over it to laminate it. (next time I would either laminate with a laminator or use clear contact laminate from walmart on front and back)

*Then I put a brad in it to allow the slices to move.

Then our 8yo or 5yo can take a erase wipe marker or even a crayola marker and write words on them.

One slice gets the first letter and the other gets the other two or you can use it the other way around or for practicing spelling words or just getting children to write.

However your child wishes.

*~*Sheila*~*